Golovkin-Lemieux Ocotber 17th HBO PPV

An agreement has been reached between Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) and David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) to fight October 17th @ Madison Square Garden NYC on HBO PPV. The bout will be a twelve round title fight for the IBO WBA IBF middleweight title.

Gennady Golovkin is coming off two fights this year against Willie Monroe Jr. and Martin Murray. He also has 20 straight knockouts since 2009 sporting a 91% KO ratio.

Lemiuex has won nine fights in a row since losing back to back fights to Marco Antonio Rubio and Joachim Alcine. in his last fight he won the IBF title against Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam where he won by UD.